Quotes About Eli Whitney

#1. Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner!

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#2. The 'secret of life' is BELIEF. Rather than genes, it is our beliefs that control our lives. PSYCH-K is a set of simple, self-empowering techniques to change your beliefs and perceptions that impact your life at a cellular level.

Bruce H. Lipton

#3. I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

Eli Whitney

#4. An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

Eli Whitney

#5. I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.

Eli Whitney

#6. I don't need to ring anyone. I said I'm dying. I didn't say I wanted to live.

Tim Bowler

#7. I had received an answer to the question that Holmes had put to me. Now all I needed to know was why I had asked it.

Anthony Horowitz

#8. Natalya hugged him hard, already torn with remorse over the forces that govern this family. "No, Seva, you won't be allowed to capture it," she said.
"Your grandfather believes in freedom.

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.

Eli Whitney

#10. One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

Eli Whitney

#11. I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

Eli Whitney

#12. I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.

Eli Whitney

#13. Walk away from your own preoccupations ... and see the perishing multitudes.

K.P. Yohannan

#14. I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

Eli Whitney